TMZ and WDSU (New Orleans’ NBC affiliate) are reporting that actor Russell Brand was arrested by New Orleans police today.
Brand was reportedly arrested on a charge of simple criminal damage to property valued at $700. Police spokesman Remi Braden could not immediately release details of the incident, which apparently happened on Monday.
Celebrity website TMZ said the charges stem from a confrontation with a photographer who was trying to take Brand’s photo from a car. TMZ is reporting that Brand allegedly grabbed a photographer’s iPhone and threw it through a window of a law firm.
In a Twitter posting on Wednesday, Brand wrote, “Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.”
Neither Brand nor his publicist have been reached for comment.